| David Graeber (and others) make an adjacent criticism: Lots of people would like to choose "caring" work. Teaching, healthcare, policy stuff, knowledge stuff, etc. Something meaningful and rewarding. With rising inequity, only people who can afford higher education, who don't have to work to eat, can choose these "caring" career paths. Some fraction of the resentment towards the "liberal elite" is from being denied access to these "caring" roles. Made worse by the obliviousness of people like me not even realizing there's a problem. -- I regard both Turchin and Graeber's theories as complimentary. I also hope that leftists like me will dig into these social phenomenon. Until we understand better, I'm content with very cheap higher ed, with some professions being subsidized. For example, I'm happy to pay people to become doctors (specialists). Society needs more. Students shouldn't be penalized, having to wait +12 years before starting families (or whatever). |
Is there really a phenomenon of people angry to the point of causing social instability because they have to work in a bank rather than teaching calculus in high school?